Hi! Here we are realising the immense emotional component of this. But seeing it as a game as you put it might be the healthiest thing to do, because we can have the good sense not to risk what we shouldn't and always manage to control the losses and not anything else.
I would like that dream tomorrow to come soon, but in the meantime it is time to accumulate with intelligence to reap the rewards.
I used to say that trading was not a game, that it was something very technical and then my husband one day gave me a lesson in sports statistics including baseball averages and basketball effectiveness, even statistical studies of racehorses and that showed me two things, firstly that it is indeed a game and secondly that sports are highly technical 😅.
I like when you talk about the balance that allows us to live in excitement and safety at the same time, healthy living. It was nice to greet you here.

These morning I am waking up and simply I am glad seeing my crypto assets work for me while I sleep. Watching the price while it is still part of my routine, it simply doesn't excite me as much. That because I've learned to be patient until the bull market truly manifest itself.

Yes, it is definitely a lot more fun when you are winning than when you are losing.  While I fully think a lot of us realize money doesn't solve all your problems, it sure does make things a lot easier sometimes!  I'm the sort of person who will ride a token all the way down to zero before I would sell it for a loss.  I have that luxury though given I have a decent income.

> I wonder, if we could average the feelings of our investing experience across time, would it be averagely positive, or negative? What does your intuition tell you?

Seems like the average would be negative. We feel the lows worse than the highs, so that would tend to pull down the average. 

> understanding our own conditions, motivations, and how we react to different circumstances, because they affect the decisions we make

This is exactly why I tell everyone they should do meditation everyday. I know of nothing else that helps us understand our own mind better than to be alone with it for 20+ minutes a day.

I know, I know, most people aren't going to do that. I find paper trading is a fairly good option for learning to understand how we react to things. But most investors don't want to take the time to do that either. Oh well. 

Although I have a finance degree, I don't do much technical analysis of the charts of my own anymore. I have 2 main investment strategies that I've been using for the last few years that has been very successful and completely takes the emotion out of the game for me.

1) Trade stocks based on large moves on trackers following US politian accounts. I hang in until the relevant legislation/evenet occurs and sell out to reclaim the initial investment.

2) Trade crypto based on the delta of the 6hr and 24hr coin mentions compared to its 30day moving avg. Buy and hold strategy for only 1 or 2 hours based on it triggering the proper delta ratio and maintaining its tweet action. I'm happy to have these FOMO moonboys be my big data trading exit liquidity.

It is crazy to me that strategy 2 is beating strategy 1 by about 6x, but it does churn thru trades more quickly so I guess more opportunity for profit.

Those higher short term gains taxes are a killer, but still better to have profits taxed than have no profits at all. Getting back to your previous article about taxes... 💀💸

Hi @tarazkp

Yes, we are all waiting for the bull run in the cryptocurrency world. Although, to be cheerful one should have bought at a substantially low price, or at the beginning of an innovative project with a sustainable future.

Here is the problem, my dear Taraz! Sherlock Holmes would say. Well, that is not written in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's saga. A later expression was created for the dramatization of the big screen, by way of a hook.

In any case, we must be careful with adrenaline and the false illusion of potential gains, usually ephemeral that few enjoy at the expense of health. The stress of the bettor, sorry, the wear and tear of cryptographic traders.

Well, now there are bots that help you with that, more efficient than one, but also, significantly riskier that can bankrupt you.

Buying at the lowest price and selling at the highest possible price is still a science and an art.

Expect the highest price, as long as you bought at the lowest. Of course, having a nose for opportunities is essential, and courage to act at the right time.

I always feel a bit of regret not being in that coin pumping but I just follow through on my own plan. Just thinking of things logically, it doesn't make sense for me to FOMO in because I am already late to that trade. Feeding into the FOMO/FUD never feels good when it starts to go against you and taking profits is never wrong.

Everyone likes the bull market and want to talk about the bull market but no one likes the bearish market, while we all know in business we have both gain and profit than I don't know why everyone loves to talk about gain ??? 🙂

Hmm I have a feeling that the average of my feelings are going to be slightly negative. I think it's just me that for the same amount of decrease, e.g. -10%, I feel more negative compared to positive when the reverse of +10% happens. 

I don't mind a bit of red, never fazed me much, but man, this week is a bloodbath. Even though my investment in crypto is tiny, it's still managing to bother me, this time around. 😂

On top of that, I don't know why, but all of a sudden I got a feeling, a little thought about Hive, something tells me that the next ATH will be double of what the previous ATH was. Nowadays I'm seeing lot of people talking about WEB3 and Decentralized Social Media. And that is why now I've got REALLY high hopes for Hive haha. 

Even I'm frustrated with the WEB2 space and their antics, I was temporarily banned for 24 hours on the Messenger App. They said I went against some kind of a community standard, but they wouldn't even tell or show me exactly what I did wrong. F*cking Pathetic! I don't care much about the other social media apps, but Messenger is needed for work and family conversations. 

I guess now I know how it feels to be banned for no reason at all, how it feels to be controlled.

I don't like competitions x_x 

<sub>I'm dealing with the fact that I have a comp group by deciding that we're just going to rock up to comps to show off and any potential medals are a bonus</sub>

At work everyone else does races and stuff with their groups and there's me pitting my kids against the clock XD

<sub>There's only a couple of "competitive" games that I do because they're hilarious to watch</sub>

My investing experience would be averagely average because I still to this day have exactly no idea what I'm doing.  Hive is still the only thing I pay attention to and I am still only doing the powerup thing because eventually it makes my upvote bigger and that's most of what I care about on that side of things XD

Did stuff go up?